Apr 4, 2013My third book, Lost Time and Other Pleasures, has been released. It contains 19 stories, 12 of which have appeared in my previous books. The remaining 7 stories are not children's stories, but are of various other genres.

Sep 11, 2011I have a new book that is about to come out. It is called Playgrounds. It is a collection of original children's stories. More to come.

Apr 14, 2010I have a new book that is out, Dreams of an Inner Child, and I have a signing for that book at Empire Books in Huntington, WV. from 4pm to 6pm on April 24th.
I have also uploaded the first two chapters in my next book, Incident at Gray Falls. Please read it and leave me comments.

Mar 21, 2010All of my children's stories will be available in a full collection soon, along with a collection exclusive story that brings all of the main characters together! More news when it becomes available!
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Mar 20, 2010Latest news! I find myself going over older works (screenplays, dreams, short stories) and I am starting to polish them up. They will be here as soon as I can get them presentable!

Well, first off, my name is Charles Lee McCabe. I have always been fond of books, and I believe that I can thank my mother for that. Naturally, my love of books (along with very few neighbors my own age) left me spending much of my free time growing up reading in one corner or another. As a kid, I always had a vivid imagination, which would at times get me into trouble. I was always the one in class spouting off jokes, or coming up with stories just to see what I could get people to believe. Yes, I spent quite a bit of time in trouble. After years of this, I decided that I might as well try my hand at putting some of these stories on paper, and maybe I would get a little positive attention for these wild ideas for once! What do you know? It worked!

I found myself writing children's stories at first, because I really wanted to see if I could do it. The process looked simple enough before I started out, but I soon learned just how difficult it would be just to get my mind to look at the world with a child’s innocence and lack of experience. It was then that I realized that many of the kids’ stories that are out there today talk down to kids and spell everything out for them. There are too few stories that make a child stop reading and think about what is going on. Most stories (for kids and adults both) simply take you along and show you a story. You simply have to read the words and recognize them, and you are fine. I wanted to write stories that made the reader ask another person that may have had different life experiences what was going on. I tried to keep myself from pouring it on too thick, and I would like to think I have succeeded.

I have also written a few other short stories of varying genre, and I do hope that you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed writing them.